Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum
Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum is a museum in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 343 m. 2768 feet stands 923 m to the south, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Tipping Bucket, a attraction 0.2 miles away. Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway passes 2.8 miles off.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Paradise Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Storybook Forest: 0.6 mi
- Ligonier Diamond: 2.8 mi
- Weller Field: 2.9 mi
- Youngstown Borough Municipal Authority Park: 4.4 mi
- Derry Community Park: 4.5 mi
- Heinz Hill: 4.2 mi
- Shooters Hill: 4.9 mi
- Club House Hill: 5.6 mi
- Gravel Hill: 5.9 mi
- Scaife Hill: 6.3 mi
- Tipping Bucket: 0.2 mi
- Soak Zone: 0.2 mi
- Wild Mouse: 0.3 mi
- Olde Idlewild: 0.3 mi
- Daniel Tiger Stage: 0.3 mi
- Fort Ligonier: 2.9 mi
- Latrobe War Memorial: 6.4 mi
- Site of Strickler's Drug Store, Home of the Banana Split: 6.5 mi
- Vietnam Veterans of Westmoreland Co. Memorial: 10.8 mi
- Blairsville Veteran's Memorial: 11.7 mi
- Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art: 3.0 mi
- KLBE Air Museum: 6.0 mi
- Powder Mill Nature Reserve: 7.0 mi
- Powdermill Nature Center: 7.0 mi
- Westmoreland Museum of American Art: 14.0 mi
- Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve: 6.2 mi
- Laurel Summit State Park: 11.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls Natural Area: 15.8 mi
- Kimberly Run Natural Area: 23.3 mi
- State Game Lands Number 273: 23.4 mi
- Monastic Garden Area: 6.1 mi
- Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve Colonial Garden: 6.3 mi
- Penn State Master Gardeners’ Richard E. Thorn Memorial Gardens: 11.8 mi
- Formal Garden: 13.1 mi
- Laurel Ave Community Garden: 19.0 mi
- Ninety Foot Rocks: 7.6 mi
- Wolf Rocks: 9.7 mi
- Beam Rocks: 11.2 mi
- Laurel Hill: 18.2 mi
- Suncliff: 25.0 mi
- Livermore: 14.1 mi
- West Overton: 17.9 mi
- Wehrum: 22.8 mi
- Cole Run Falls: 20.0 mi
- Turtle Falls: 21.3 mi
- Hinckston Falls: 22.1 mi
- Kooser Spring: 13.3 mi
- Paterson Spring: 18.9 mi
- Morley’s Dog: 19.8 mi
- Birdhouse: 20.6 mi
- Slovak Club Picnic Grounds: 4.5 mi
- Keystone Beach: 9.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.8 miles of Ligonier Valley Rail Road Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2768 feet | S 177° | 923 m | 15.2 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSE 157° | 893 m | 11.0 mi |
| Painter Rock Hill | S 183° | 893 m | 13.5 mi |
| Birch Rock Hill | S 187° | 891 m | 14.9 mi |
| Sugar Camp Hill | ESE 102° | 887 m | 9.9 mi |
| Pea Vine Hill | SE 128° | 886 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mystery Hill | ESE 105° | 878 m | 9.9 mi |
| Pike's Peak | ESE 111° | 868 m | 9.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:53 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 20:10 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:12 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 39 | 49 | 60 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rector 3 SSW, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/508031755
Day trips start here
- Donegal · 12 mi
- Greensburg · 14 mi
- New Stanton · 17 mi
- Somerset · 21 mi
- Irwin · 22 mi
- Connellsville · 23 mi
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